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Locke's new definition of musical exoticism, which is on the following page of his article, is the one primarily used in this paper: “Musical exoticism is the process of evoking in or through music-whether the latter is ‘exotic-sounding’ or not-a place, people, or social milieu that is not entirely imaginary and that differs profoundly from the ‘home’ country or culture in attitudes, customs, and morals. Print, who, in Provincializing Europe, argues that scholars need to explore Orientalism from the colonized world now, not just from the Western one. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP. Brown goes on to demonstrate that the move to the margins in science fiction television follows the path of postcolonial thought from Said to Dipesh Chakrabarty Chakrabarty, Dipesh. Kevin Donnelly notes that Star Trek was especially known at the time for its use of stock music. “The Invented Indian and the Euro-American: Nostalgia, Redemption and Innocence on the Frontier.” Unpublished paper delivered at University of Wales, Swansea, 2001, “The Invented Indian and the Euro-American” and other scholars such as Rachel Williams and Jonathan Laidlow who have taken similar looks at Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ‘Things are Different Now’? A Postcolonial Analysis of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts, Manchester: Manchester UP. Print, “Orientalism and its Problems” and John MacKenzie MacKenzie, John. In Beginning Postcolonialism, Edited by: McLeod, John. For useful further reading on critiques of Orientalism that informed this paper, see Dennis Porter Porter, Dennis. That's why I want to keep the mandolins and the guitar and the cello and the more sort of spare, old-fashioned instruments without falling into goofy-hood.” Whedon remarked in an interview: “I'm obsessed with the frontier thing, all the instruments being the ones they can carry. This demo of Whedon singing Firefly's theme song can be heard as a bonus feature on the DVD release of the complete series. Those ten tunes were from The Dream of Olwen, The Virginian, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Romeo and Juliet, Sportsnight, Emmerdale Farm, Sayonara, A Streetcar Named Desire, Owed to ‘G,’ and Miami Vice.

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2010, “An Anthropology of Stereotypes in TV Music?”. “An Anthropology of Stereotypes in TV Music?” first published in Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning 1989: 19–42 and available in translation at. Although Tagg and several other scholars who worked with him have produced several articles resulting from this study, information for this section of the paper is drawn from Philip Tagg Tagg, Philip. Altman notes that televisions have to compete with other household distractions and so the music often has a pragmatic function. In this paper, comparisons will be made between Firefly and other commercial network programming. Cable television and subscription channel programs such as Mad Men, The Sopranos, and The Wire have all developed complex musical tapestries, creating notable exceptions to my generalizations. The notion of film and television scores impacting identification is most fruitfully explored in Anahid Kassabian's Hearing Film. Snuffy Walden, whom Gorbman mentions, including Mark Snow, Christophe Beck, and Michael Giacchino.

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Although the situation has improved with online resources such as the Internet Movie Database ( ) and a few commercial releases of television music, the names of composers popularly known extend to only a few outside Mike Post and W.G.

Joss Whedon's body of work has become increasingly relevant to scholars in multiple fields, leading to the establishment of the Whedon Studies Association in early 2009.

Identity has been used in so many different contexts that is has lost much of its meaning, while identification is a more active description of the process I see happening in television music. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, Berkeley: U of California P. Throughout this article, I use the term “identification” instead of “identity” following the work of Frederick Cooper Cooper, Frederick. Throughout this essay, Serenity will refer to the ship captained by Malcolm Reynolds, “Serenity” will refer to the pilot episode of Firefly, and Serenity will refer to the show's film incarnation. Whedon perhaps overused the title “Serenity” in regards to the Firefly universe. The fans, calling themselves “browncoats,” charted the progress of their campaign on a website,, from which most information in this section was gleaned.

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